TOP 100 DIAMOND SITES
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| A girl's new best friends (Canada.com) Diamonds may be forever, but they aren't the only sparkly stone on the block. This season women are snapping up pale or unusual semi-precious stones in unpredictable combinations -- which means they're not mortgaging the condo to get some lovely pieces, say three jewelry experts. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Never enough gold jewelry (Asia Times) Ambrose Evans-Pritchard at The Telegraph.co.uk reports that the US Academy of Sciences calculates that "some 26% of all the copper and 19% of all the zinc that ever existed in the earth's crust has already been lost to mankind, mostly wasted in milling or smelting or buried in landfills." us.rd.yahoo.com |
Botswana: Quality Diamonds Still in Demand - Oppenheimer (AllAfrica.com) Demand for better-quality diamonds is continuing in the subprime-impacted US, says De Beers chairperson Nicky Oppenheimer on the impact of the US subprime crisis on diamond sales in the important US market. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Fake Diamonds Help Jet Engines Take The Heat (Science Daily) Engineers are developing a technology to coat jet engine turbine blades with zirconium dioxide -- commonly called zirconia, the stuff of synthetic diamonds -- to combat high-temperature corrosion. The zirconia chemically converts sand and other corrosive particles that build up on the blade into a new, protective outer coating. In effect, the surface of the engine blade constantly renews itself. ... us.rd.yahoo.com |
North Australian Diamonds Announces PalSac Pipe Resource Increased (NAD.AX, 00832556, 20080415) (Huntleys' Stock of the Week via Yahoo!7 Finance) North Australian Diamonds announced it has increased the total JORC compliant Indicated and Inferred Resource at its Merlin Diamond Project in the Northern Territory by 16% to 9.1Mt. us.rd.yahoo.com |